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Noun
the whole wide world
- (emphatic) The entire world; everybody, everywhere.
1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel:How could one doubt these things, when Pope and priest and scholar and King were all united in believing them, with no single voice of question in the whole wide world?
2014, Lee Child, Personal, page 386:No one in the whole wide world is going to give a shit. Not one single person. And they won't even know anyway. Tomorrow you'll be in Syria or Egypt or Guantanamo Bay, even. We do things differently now.
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